Latin name | Ocimum basilicum L. | Family | Lamiaceae | Identified with (Skt) | barbarī, arjaka | Identified with (Hin) | bābul, bābuyitulasī | Identified with (Tam) | tirunītturu, tirunīruppaccai | Identified with (Mal) | rāmattuḷasi | Identified with (Eng) | Sweet basil, Common basil | Botanical info | An aromatic herb, 60 - 90 cm high, growing throughout India, leaves simple, opposite, ovate, acute, flowers white or pale purple in simple branched racemes often thyrsoid, fruits ellipsoid nutlets, black | Search occurrence | barbarī, arjaka, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts | See plant's image | Ocimum basilicum L. in Google image search | Encyclopedias & Dictionaries | Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 90) arjaka, mfn. procuring, acquiring, L.; m. the plant Ocimum Gratissimum, L. Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 722) barbarī, f. a species of Ocimum, Bhpr.; = barbara n. and -rIka n.; N. of a river, VP.
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